NISO Public E-mail Lists and Archives

NISO maintains a number of e-mail lists that are available to the public to inform interested parties of ongoing work and to serve as forums for questions and feedback. In some cases, anyone may subscribe to the list and post messages. In other cases, subscribers and postings are limited, but anyone may view the archives.

Lists

The type of list identifies what functions are available to the public:

Closed - Only group members can subscribe and post. Archives are not publicly available.

Archive - The public may only view archives. Only group members may subscribe and post.

Announce - The public may subscribe to the list and view archives. Only list administrators may post to the list.

Open - Anyone may subscribe and post to the list. Archives are available to the public.

Interest group list for those who want to follow the work of the Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing Working Group that is developing a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in a digital text, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or mutable.

Discussion list for the Cost of Resource Exchange (CORE) recommended practice (NISO RP-10-2010) to facilitate the transfer of cost and related financial information from an Integrated Library System (ILS) Acquisitions module (the source) to an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS) (the requestor). Implementation questions and comments may be posted to this list.

Interest group list for those who want to follow the work of the Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) of Monographs Working Group that is developing recommended practices for populating and managing the pool of titles under consideration for potential purchase, including methods for automated updating and removal of discovery records.

Open

ebooksigcore

E-book Special Interest Group Core Members – Closed discussion list for core members of NISO's E-book Special Interest Group.

Interest group list for those who want to follow the work of the E-book Special Interest Group. The SIG will be monitoring and reviewing the state of the industry for e-books and suggesting areas for new initiatives within NISO or areas where NISO can engage with other communities on e-book work underway outside of NISO.

Interest group list for those who want to follow the work of the joing NISO/UKSG Knowledge Base and Related Tools (KBART) Working Group for Phase 2 or to discuss the KBART Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-2010) that was published in Phase 1.

NISO Newsline – a monthly free e-newsletter reporting on the latest NISO news, highlighting new specifications and standards of interest including calls for public review and comment, abstracting significant media stories on topics of interest to the NISO community, and linking to news releases of NISO member organizations. A quarterly supplement, Working Group Connection, provides updates on all of NISO's active working groups.

Interest group for those who want to follow the work of the Open Discovery Initiative Working Group that is developing standards and/or best practices for the new generation of library discovery services that are based on indexed search.

Interest group for those who want to follow the work of the IOTA (Improving OpenURL Through Analytics) Working Group that is investigating the feasibility of creating industry-wide, transparent and scalable metrics for evaluating and comparing the quality of OpenURL implementations across content providers.

Discussion group for the recommended practice Physical Delivery of Library Materials (NISO RP-12-2012) that recommends best practices for the physical movement of items during the delivery of the items to the requesting library and their return to the lending library.

Interest group for those who want to follow the work of the PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals) Working Group that is developing a Recommended Practice that will provide guidance on the presentation and identification of e-journals, particularly in the areas of title presentation and bibliographic history, accurate use of the ISSN, and citation practice.

Discussion group for the recommended practice SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (NISO RP-7-2012) that offers a mechanism that can be used as an alternative to a license agreement for e-resources.

Moderated list. Announce-only to notify subscribers of availability of public meeting minutes for the NISO STS Steering and Technical working groups. More information available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sts/.